The Croswell-Lexington Board of Education has accepted a settlement for $175,000 in a lawsuit over faulty construction work at the high school funded by the district's 2010 bond extension.

The contractor in the lawsuit was not named by the board of education, which approved the settlement 6-0 Tuesday.

"This settlement will recover the majority of the district funds allocated to repair damage caused by the faulty installation," Katie Gordon, board president, said before the vote.

The vote was taken after a closed session which lasted about 10 minutes.

The name of the contractor in question does not appear in documents connected to Monday’s vote. No member of the board said the name of the contractor, the agenda did not include the name, nor did the official statement released by the school district following the vote.

When asked by the Times Herald whether keeping the contractor unnamed was a condition of the agreement, Cros-Lex Superintendent Dan Gilbertson declined to comment.

According to the district’s statement, the bonded project that resulted in the litigation was completed in 2012. The district detected water leaks after the work was finished at the high school. An investigation was conducted and a forensic engineer found that faulty window installation caused the leaks, the statement said.

After determining the cause, the district repaired the leaks and took legal action against the contractor.

The work was part of $17 million in improvements to the district's facilities. About $15.4 million of the work was funded by a bond extension approved by voters in May 2010. Another $1.6 million was slated to come from the district's capital improvement funds.

The work included an addition at the high school.

The addition included classrooms, science labs, a large cafeteria that also serves as an auditorium, and a new gym with a workout facility and indoor track, according to a 2010 Times Herald article.

Officials said at the time the high school, built in 1962, was constructed to house 500 students and held nearly 800.